Self-Examination in “Novelist as a Vocation” – Chicago Review of Books

Self-Examination in “Novelist as a Vocation” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] If an aspiring storyteller were to pick up Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation, translated by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen, expecting a step-by-step guide to putting a novel together, they may well be disappointed. However, what Murakami’s memoir does offer is certainly of equal value. It is one novelist looking back over his … Read more

The Anxieties of Autofiction in “The Novelist” – Chicago Review of Books

The Anxieties of Autofiction in “The Novelist” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The unnamed narrator of Jordan Castro’s The Novelist is not Jordan Castro. Castro, the author, wants this to be clear. So clear, in fact, that there is a famous writer named Jordan Castro within the novel. The unnamed narrator admires Jordan Castro—he’s everything the narrator wants to be as a writer, and he envies … Read more